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by bmj 15y ago
Perhaps I'm just fortunate, but in my current situation, I don't think this would matter much. Sure, my co-worker may get a larger raise, but I'm pretty comfortable with my current salary, and the fact that I can average 40-45 hours a week
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by bmj 15y ago
There are two things that kill my 8-hour-day productivity: 1. Meetings 2. Someone upstream not doing their job. #2 is far worse than #1 (and directly related to the parent's #1). There is truly nothing worse than a project manag
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by bmj 15y ago
A bigger problem is making people think that 60 hour weeks is normal, or honourable, and that a 40 hour week is lazy or disloyal or unproductive or harmful to the company. That's not true, and it's possibly leading to early death of some p
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by bmj 15y ago
Does an ER surgeon always have the time/bandwidth to scrub hands before surgery? Does it potentially take the surgeon several days to scrub before an emergency surgery? Edited to add: I appreciate the analogy, but it's flawed. If someone
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by bmj 15y ago
Do you always have the time/bandwidth to write these tests? I'm curious what you might do if an old codebase lands in your lap and someone says "here, fix these bugs by the impossible_length_of_time." I appreciate the idea here, and I've d
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by bmj 15y ago
Another example: "#34 Be familiar with browser compatibility" - this is just your, developer's job. I cannot imagine expecting a designer to know about IE6 limitations (and tons of hacks and techniques to overcome them). This might be ove
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by bmj 15y ago
Maybe "efficiency" is implied, since folks using the initial version of vi would be used to using those keys for navigation anyway. So, I read this more as "Bill Joy used a convention" rather than "Bill Joy chose the most efficient keys fo
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Take My Privacy, Please A Defense of Google(theatlantic.com)
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by bmj 15y ago
In my experience (on both sides of the table), it's okay to say "what are the shortcomings of language_x" if you are interviewing for a specific set of skills. If the candidate has a list of languages on their CV, then it may be worth aski
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by bmj 15y ago
I agree. But we're talking about software as a service here, and that kinda makes it a different ballgame. Folks are paying money (in some cases) to use your software living on your servers (or, at least servers that you manage). I would
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by bmj 15y ago
Why does it matter if it's a server? I reckon, if it's a server, the only people that should have that sort of access to it should be trusted to change the time.
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by bmj 15y ago
Yes, and people really should quit. If they did, then employers might just get the message. In some industries, maybe. I've worked in several "old school" design agencies (doing a bit of interactive work), and many designers and product
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by bmj 15y ago
It would be no different than if a thousand companies banded together to source labor below minimum wage by paying per task, and sharing that labor around rather than employing each laborer in a "job" (eg in a metro area with high populati
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by bmj 15y ago
I would suggest that anyone who wants to apply have someone within the company refer you. For one thing they'll be able to guide you through the process better and (hopefully) set your expectations correctly. I want to underscore this. I
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by bmj 15y ago
This. It's not even older businesses--Office is THE standard in so many offices around the U.S. Talk to the IT department in a company that has more than 50 employees (and where processes can be document-heavy)--asking employees to switch
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by bmj 15y ago
Yeah, except that I'm fairly sure that a large percentage of web users don't even know their browser might support plugins, let alone that AdBlock exists.
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by bmj 15y ago
I wonder how many employers actually search for (or would look at) GitHub repos? We are a bit biased here, right? Lots of folks working on bleeding edge projects leveraging lots of little open source projects--so, of course, we think "doe
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by bmj 15y ago
The simple tool analogy is flawed, I think. A hammer, saw, or screwdriver tend to do one, maybe two (in the case of a case) things well. A programmer's editor will often need to do lots of thing well (or, at least a few, specialized thing
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by bmj 15y ago
Except the article is about a state cutting library funding. While California likely sends a fair amount of tax dollars to Washington, D.C., I'm fairly sure their state coffers are directly funding military campaigns and the DHS. * Edit: g
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by bmj 15y ago
This isn't an either/or matter. I suspect that plenty of highly educated individuals came from private universities. And I also suspect that there's plenty of knowledge to be had from non-educated individuals, too.
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by bmj 15y ago
I'd upvote this many times, if I could. I got in the habit of doing several hours of work a week at the library while my kids were doing various activities, and I loved it. At first, I did have that "gee, am I just taking space" moment, b
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by bmj 15y ago
And this is news why? Did Obama not have a field office in SF in 2008? I would find that hard to believe.
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by bmj 15y ago
As pointed out by another comment, this isn't the site's homepage. Perhaps an admin could update the link to point to http://gemfury.com ?
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by bmj 15y ago
I'm not sure that's too surprising. Unlike someone writing papers or books, a journalist generally just hands over text to an editor, and someone else deals with layout, typeface, and so on.
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by bmj 15y ago
Are TSA security services free[1]? Or does the airport pay for the government presence, too? [1] That is, does a TSA airport pay out of pocket specifically for the TSA staff, or is it a service of Homeland Security (and funded by tax dolla
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by bmj 15y ago
This has been my experience with my family, too (wife and two young kids). We've stressed about the pat-down v. scan each time we've flown, but the scanners haven't even been on when we've flown out of PGH.
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by bmj 15y ago
This may be true, but do you ever go to the library? I often spend a few hours a week there while my kids are in a class, and there are TONS of people doing research (and reading) actual books. Yes, people are doing lots of work online, b
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by bmj 15y ago
In cases like this, I prefer to equate Stallman's idea of freedom to Illich's idea of conviviality--a convivial empowers the user, and gives her the ability to mold it and use it as she sees fit. If you just distribute only a binary, you a
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by bmj 15y ago
This is what we are trying to do with our kids (boys aged 8 and 6). They make their own lunches, generally entertain themselves, though we still have "family time," and do their share of chores aroubd the house. I think there is a tendenc
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by bmj 15y ago
In my experience, the Webkit tools (particularly in Chrome and Iron) are ahead of Firebug, especially when trying to debug minimized JavaScript (pretty print is included in the tool--in Firefox, you need an additional plugin). Firebug can

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